Inspired by the highly regarded rotary speaker simulation we created for our Combo B3T organ instrument, by popular demand we now present it as a dedicated effect with several enhancements.

Product details
Psyclone makes it easy for you to control and shape the rotary sound of your dreams, whether it’s changing amp types and adding more distortion, reducing the chorusing or reverb, or quickly turning the dual rotors into a single rotor setup, which is essential for emulating certain smaller rotary speakers such as the Leslie 125 or Fender Vibratone.

The main controls for the rotors and amp are on the front panel. An additional “Advanced Cabinet” page with extra chorus adjustments are discretely hidden behind the speaker grille.

A number of presets are available from the patch selector for both dual and single rotor setups. Single rotors are ideal for the transistor organs of our wonderful Combo range of Rack Extensions. But Psyclone is not only for organs and synths, we have included patches designed for guitars and pianos too!

Features

Off/Run switch to disable all the rotary functions while leaving the amp circuits operating

The all-in-one Slow/Brake/Fast control enables the user to switch speed or stop the rotation from a single controller. Available as a stored property for patches, this control can also be mapped quickly to a modulation wheel by switching it to "Mod Wheel Mode", ideal for Combinator-izing with an instrument for enhanced performance

Easily disable the rotation of the bass or treble rotors, or adjust the speed of the rotors based on the standard pulley ratios

Adjust the acceleration/deceleration speed of the rotors

Turn the traditional 800Hz crossover off entirely to quickly convert the dual rotor to single rotor operation

Adjust the balance, stereo width and distance of the virtual microphones

Additional advanced features provide tweaking of several tonal qualities

Nice HD graphics... I am noticing more and more REs have them now. Maybe some changes are coming to the UI soon?

There has been no change since SDK 1 in the final graphics resolution for REs.

Yes, I know. However, it used to be the case that all Rack Extensions were shown on the shop website in their low resolution. I have now noticed several that are displayed in high res. Even Propellerheads new drum RE is shown in HD.

Now my feeling is that they should only show HD if that is also what users get, otherwise it is a bit unfair or misleading. So I hope this foreshadows that HD graphics are coming to Reason soon.

There has been no change since SDK 1 in the final graphics resolution for REs.

Yes, I know. However, it used to be the case that all Rack Extensions were shown on the shop website in their low resolution. I have now noticed several that are displayed in high res. Even Propellerheads new drum RE is shown in HD.

Now my feeling is that they should only show HD if that is also what users get, otherwise it is a bit unfair or misleading. So I hope this foreshadows that HD graphics are coming to Reason soon.

I was responding to your conclusion that changes were coming soon - there is nothing here to support that.

Since day one you could create a high resolution image using the tools provided by the Props. These were used to create obvious "3D" perspective shots (from different angles) and even different lighting effects as I did for early promos of the Selig DeEsser (as one example).

I've also seen 3D renders (and had Reason user Nirude create them for my ColoringEQ) complete with animations - are those also mis-leading in your opinion?

I was responding to your conclusion that changes were coming soon - there is nothing here to support that.

I've also seen 3D renders (and had Reason user Nirude create them for my ColoringEQ) complete with animations - are those also mis-leading in your opinion?

I did not conclude, I expressed hope. That there is "nothing here to support that" is a strong statement that you should support better. If you want to say that you don't agree with my interpretation or have a different opinion, then that seems more reasonable to me.

Regarding what is misleading: I would tend to say screenshots in the shop page are misleading if they show rack extensions that look better than reality. 3D Renders are less misleading, in my opinion, because it is very obvious that the Reason Rack is not 3d-rendered. You can only "look at it" in a 2D way.